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Heart failure is also called congestive heart failure or CHF. It is an ongoing health problem. It happens when your heart cannot pump as well as it should. Common symptoms of CHF include: fluid retention, swelling of the feet and ankles, bloating, and difficulty breathing.

Many people with heart failure have a history of other heart problems, like a heart attack or blocked arteries. However, heart failure is a different, specific medical condition. Not everyone who has had a heart attack will develop heart failure. Has a healthcare professional told you that you have heart failure, congestive heart failure, or CHF? Yes No I have experienced other heart problems, but not CHF

The Magnesium Miracle Book:As a population, we have many reasons for becoming depleted in magnesium: diets high in processed foods, magnesium-depleted soil, certain medication interactions, and fluoridated water, which renders magnesium unavailable to the body.

Chronic stress elevates the stress hormone adrenaline, which further depletes magnesium. Last but not least, aging is a risk factor for magnesium deficiency. And in a vicious circle, accelerated aging is also a byproduct of magnesium deficiency. Magnesium performs hundreds of functions in the body; however, many researchers believe its most important function is cellular energy production. The enzyme ATP, created in the mitochondria of each body cell, is our main source of cellular energy. ATP must be bound to a magnesium ion in order to be biologically active. Unfortunately, most people just don’t have enough magnesium ions available. Tired? Headaches? ‘Charley Horses’? Because magnesium is so essential to body energy production, c…

To those who feel like they don't belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. Author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection of patchwork stories about loss, shame and the slow process of self-acceptance. "Even at the moment of your failure, you are beautiful," she says. "You don't know it yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That's your beauty."So I know TED is about a lot of things that are big,but I want to talk to you about something very small.So small, it's a single word.The word is "misfit."It's one of my favorite words, because it's so literal.I mean, it's a person who sort of missed fitting …

Natural Treatments Can Be MOREEffective Against NeurologicalDisorders Than Dangerous Drugs! When it comes to neurological disorders such as Parkinson's, my parents' suffering spurred me to investigate ALL the conventional forms of treatment available. To this day, traditional treatments include a host of drugs and surgeries. L-dopa — Mainstay treatment (most patients will get worse after two to five years, and it appears to speed deterioration)Carbidopa — A form of L-dopa that increases brain levels of the medicationDrugs that inhibit MAO-B (an enzyme)Drugs that inhibit COMT (an enzyme)Drugs that mimic dopamineDrugs that block glutamate receptorsAnticholinergic drugs (nerve impulse inhibitors)Surgical treatmentsStereotaxic unilateral pallidotomy (destroying a small portion of the brain that Parkinson's has damaged)Stereotaxic ablation of subthalamic nucleus (burning or freezing a small portion of the brain damaged by Parkinson'…